Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1930, Page 22

B—6 l Something Ought to Be Done About This I Ip,e0 Soutn N A mmure = I FET T couo Y TRUST A NEIGABOR. TD TAKE CARE. OF LOTTIE' AND *scBERT” ! BEDTIME STORIE Another Surprise. Whene'er vyou think you know it all, You're set to give your pride a fall —Farmer Brown's Boy. Chatterer the Red Squirrel never did know just what had happened to his bridge from the clothespost to the corn- crib. But he could guess. Somebody in Farmer Brown's house had taken down that clothesline. He kept hoping that it would be put up again. Some time during every day he went over to see if that clothesline had been put back. He found the line stretched from one clothespost to another and from one THREE _MORNINGS LATER HE DISCOVERED ANOTHER BARE . CORNCOB. clothespost over to a corner of the house, but never again was it stretched over to the corncrib. Meanwhile, Farmer Brown's Boy had ceased to think anything about Chat- terer. He had put an end to the steal- ing of corn from the corncrib, and that was enough. Every morning he went to the corncrib to get corn to feed the hens. He didn't even look around to see if there were any signs that any one else was visiting the corncrib. He was sure that no one else could be. 1. Reduce in rank. . Craft. . Hummingbird. . Pledges of honor. . Scolds. 3 hmc:(em noted for its porcelain. . Narrow woven strip. . Baby's exclamation. . Ungrammatical, but common, nega- tive statement of existence. . Boy’s nickname. . Sunburn. . Conjunction. . Prophets. . Silk material. . Worthless leaving. . Excuse for non-appearance in court, . Exclamation intended for frighten- ing. 6. Or. . Musical instruments. . Snakes, . East Indian herb. . Squadron of a Cossack regiment. . Greek letter. . Shaped conically. . Middays. . Anclent Egyptian deity. 53. Prevent. . Call for help. . Frult stones. . The: Spanish. . One of the Great Lakes. . Letter of the Greek alphabet. Perceive. . More vigilant. 5. Andean vultures. . Ruffs formerly worn by women. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS He was sure that no mice could get in there, no rats could get in there and no_squirrels could get in there. It was some two weeks after he had | removed Chatterer’s bridge that Farmer | Brown's Boy noticed a bare corncob in the cornerib one morning. He gave it only a passing thought. “It is one of the cobs that Chatterer left,” said Farmer Brown's Boy. “I must have overlooked it.” He picked it up and took it away to put with the other corncobs from which he had shelled the corn for the hens. Three mornings later he discovered another bare corn- cob. Again he thought it was one of those Chatterer had strl%ped of corn at the time he was using the clothesline for a bridge. But when a few morninj later Farmer Brown's Boy found still another cob, he began to do some think- ing. He examined this one carefully. He saw at once that the corn had been removed from it very recently. It was a fresh corncob. Farmer Brown's Boy gave vent to a low whistle of surprise. ‘Then he began to look around carefully. He found an ear of corn from which part of the corn had been removed. He suspected that it had been done either that morning or the day before, or pos- sibly in the night. “So there is some one else in this cornerib!” exclaimed Farmer Brown's Boy. Then, as it popped into his head that Mother Brown might have put up that clothesline from the clothespost to the cornerib, he went to the door and looked out. The line was not there. He was sure that it hadn’t been there since he took it down. Some one had found another way of getting into that corncrib. ‘Who it could be this time he didn’t have any idea. He began to wonder if perhaps after all a mouse had not been brought in with the corn in the Fall. He had known of such things in the past. “It seems,” said Farmer Brown's Boy to himself, “that this must be the case. Probably a mouse got in here then somehow and has been living here ever since.” ‘Once more he got out the mousetraps and set them. The result was just what it had been before. He never found a mouse in any of those traps. But he did find bare corncobs, and he knew that some one was feasting on his corn. (Copyright, 1030.) . Seasons of the year. . Female sheep. . Color. Rocks. DOWN. . Newspapers; coll. Stoats. . Cow’s low. . Russian girl's name. . Adolescent years; coll. . Tries. . Help. . Members of the same family. . Operate on the skull. . Dined. . Hawkers. . Phoenician goddess of love. . Gratify. . So be it. 23. Horses' galts. . Splashes gently. 3 Ilfle of a knight. . Also. . Suffix denoting oil. . Quality of being unfavorably well known. 36. Bar legally. . Woman's nickname. . Age. . Area in acres. . Superficial. . 31416, . Offensive. : Resldent, physicians in a hospital. ax. . Conveyed in a wagon. 50. Girl's name. . Iceberg. . Yell. . Irish. 61. Preposition, . Before. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE. . Dark brown. Collector of Bottles. Isaac Skillin of Freeport, Me, is & collector who specializes on old bottles. Among his treasures are a sea captain’s chest with six quart bottles, six pints, two goblets, two tumblers and a taster, the set valued at $600. Then there are | “Moses” bottles and six grog bottles WASHINGTON, D JANUARY 11 My usval witty style IF you couvld know By an aching tooth | Pop MOMAND Is right behind smile. L McGinis Locked Up. GRAY The Problem Solved. 11 MY g7 (34 BUO FISHER How LONG RRE You ReEMAINING IN THE STRTES, CouNTESS 7 The Countess Didn’t Get HERE, PRO, I WANT MY MONEY BACK— THESE ARE NOT 4. MATCHED IRON'S - FREEMAN The Irony of Matched Irons. THE LEAVES FALL OFF IN WINTER AN LEAVE ALL THE TREES By GENE BYRNES |sald to be among the first made in America. One has a clock on the face of it. There is a “book” bottle with “The Only True History of Bourbon Country.” A broken column bottle made before 1840 represents Wolfe at Quebec. A “Flora Temple” bottle was named for & trotting horse. | Leave of Absence. By S.LUUNTLEY The Little Fellow’s Particular. JUST UNTIL I FINISH MY SHOPPING LISTEN YoU POOR SAP — I Teww' ™ TROTM! I Don'T :2‘“6‘ DonNT FUNI Rt TeL Yoo 1 Havent MORE 10EA WHERE THOSE SPARKLER 3 ARE THAN A JAcKk RABOIT! LIGHTNING ! . STEP HERE A MINUTE -~ MR MSGWIS, TLL GNE You JUST Two MNUTES TO TELL ME WHAT You DD WITH THose Jewers' YOU KNOW WHERE JeweLs ARE, md I DONT KNOAM NO! \'VE FIGGERED OUT WHKRY T WE TAN DO= WHNT WEVE GOT IO SEML 'S ALl FOR GROWNELUPS = BUT TH' CROWD WE GET \W T’ STORE \S i MOSTLN K\bS = WELL - WHY NOT HANE THANGS TO_SE\L THAT KBS WiLL Bun? ! Anne, Souve KT THE NAL RAGHT ON THE WERAD - PUT N A L\NE OF STUFF TOoR CH\WTREN - LETS SEE, NOW=- WHAT ALL WL WE HANE O ORPERT r & MNGO" MEASELS, OR SuTHIN' { COME ON,JEFEL PUT ON) YOUR HAT AND COAT! WE'RE GOING ™ DeTROT, WORKING MEN SEUEN BUCKS A DAY FoR MAKING FoRb S -OF COURSE I INTEND TO TRKE IN THE SIGHTS ! I DISLIKE TRAVELLING THROUGH COUNTRIES ALONE -- IF I COULD GET A COMPANION 1D GLADLY FooT ALL EXPENSES MRAYBE YOU KNOw OF A - GOOD COMPANION FOR ME 100! oF course I DON'T LIKE T'GET PERSONAL, ER =~ BUT== ER=- 2 Z; % _ W AR IR Ny NN RES \\ THATS RIGHT' AN’ THEY HAVE \§ SOME. TREES WHAT NO LEAVES GROW ON WHATS LL THE TREES' THE HEMLOCK AN’ SPRUCE ARE GREEN ALL THE YEAR AROUN ' ALl THE YEAR PYLES, THE BUTLER, DASHED INTO THE SALON Geomeh. I¥W, The Chicags DALy News, tae. WHERE INSPECTOR HAWKSHIRE SAT DISCUSSING THE STRANGE HAPPENINGS OF THE FORTNIGHT WITHLADY ELLEN 0M DO COME QUICK, SIR!". THE OLD BUTLER GASPED.- ‘L HAVE QUST FOUND' HIS LORDSHIP UNCONISCIOUS IN THE HALLWAY _BESIDE His PRONE BODY IS A 80X ..AND. RIDE M coweov! KNOW WHERE THoSE| | HAMDLED Guys So! TMey've Locwed ME IN EW ? ID LIKE TO Kvow WHAT THIS AAD BIRD THey cALL TH' Deacon HAS uP i sue;\z? 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